On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:31:12PM +0100, Arnfinn Ringvold wrote:
> Package: man
> Severity: normal
> 
> I have read man pages: man mandb apropos manpath ..
> On my system ~.manpath is not istalled and looking at istalled files
> of the respective packages it does not show installation of this
> file. I do not know if /etc/manpath should take care og this.
> I have run mandb with normal results. I have also tried to copy
> /etc/manpath.conf to ~/.manpath. Apropos still outputs:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apropos mandb
> mandb: nothing appropriate
> 
> You possibly know the answer. Looking forward to your reply.

Leave ~/.manpath alone. You don't need it under normal circumstances.

Please show me the output of 'apropos --debug mandb'.

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Colin Watson                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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